Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:05:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kevin Vigor <kevin@vigor.nu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello & boot > cylinder 1024 suggestion Message-ID: <199910102205.PAA08122@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Oct 1999 10:14:46 MDT." <XFMail.991007101446.kevin@vigor.nu>
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> I was recently annoyed to find that I cannot install/boot FreeBSD > from a hard drive partition extending beyond cylinder 1024 (not a > problem unique to FreeBSD by any means...). Even with LBA support, > this translates to an 8-gig limit (i.e. the boot partition must be > completely within the first 8 gigs of the hard drive). Actually, LBA support exists, unfortunately enabling it is still a little bit magic. > So, questions: has anybody thought of this before? I > couldn't find any reference to such a project anywhere, but it seems > relatively obvious. Does this sound like a idea worth pursuing? And > assuming that the previous answers are no and yes respectively, is > there anyone who can/would assist with the install integration/testing > portion of this (I am confident of my ability to code the MBR/BTX > changes, but much less confident of my understanding on the install > process). It's been looked at and basically rejected as "too bloody hard". If you have a convincing argument that this path should be followed over using the BIOS 'packet mode/EDD3' interface, and are willing to put the code together to do it, then we'll certainly look at it and see what can be done to take advantage of it. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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